The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World.

Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.

We learned more from a 3 minute record than we ever learned in school

Thought is action in rehearsal.